Kids and Teens

Angel

Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.

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Enjoyed the costumes, music, and scenery. The story varies from trite to purely silly, a romance novel within a romance novel, and I found myself laughing a lot. It was all fun, even the death scene following the rescue of the pure white cat in the pure white snow.

What a weird movie indeed. It let me indifferent, I don't know if I liked it or not, like others said. I didn't like the main characters, but the one of Nora and the editor. I was curious to see Fassbender and Garai in that movie, and I saw what I wanted. They were so young it it!

Agreed, I used more of the fast forward than watching. The poster is beautiful: the dress is amazing. --- Perhaps the film would appeal to someone who believes men are horrible; that a female artist cannot find sustaining love and support from a man. But I have found that theme better expressed in less shallow films.

EuSei
Jun 08, 2012

What a weird movie… Like one reviewer wrote, it is kitsch and melodramatic. But what else could one expect from a weird, kitsch, melodramatic person like Elizabeth Taylor? Angel is spoiled, selfish, nuts—just like Taylor seemed to be. Angel’s mother was a servant, something to be used and not even mourned when it was over. I realized I was using the fast forward more than watching the movie, so gave up.

Watching this film is kind of like reading someone's diary: you're not sure if you "liked" it or "disliked" it - or whether or not you can even rightly form an opinion.

But to be less philosophical, it's an attractive film for its eye candy (the production design, Romola Garai & Michael Fassbender, the wardrobe...) but *definitely* unusual.

The director chose to visualise the story from Angel's particularly melodramatic and self-biased (skewed) perspective so you can't take the film/story at "face value". If you do you'll be either disappointed or won't be able to finish the movie. If you *don't* you'll laugh a lot and be still thinking about this film for days afterwards.

Not for everyone, but if you are a bit more of sophisticated and patient viewer, you'll be glad you gave it a chance.